Re: Linksys WRT54G and the GPL

[Marcus Metzler]

Dr. David Alan Gilbert writes:
 > I suggest taking this slowly; just like no one here would like a bunch
 > of lawyers breathing down their necks for something I'm sure their guys
 > won't either - and that should probably be a last resort after people
 > have tried a few friendlier contacts.
 > 
 > In the case of busybox I guess they are just using a standard unmodified
 > one; so in principal all they really missing is an acknowledgment
 > pointing to its home page.
 > 
 > In the case of the kernel do we know they've actually made any
 > modifications at all? Or is it just a standard distribution from
 > someone else?  Perhaps they've contributed changes back?
 > 

Well, there should be a driver for the 802.11g (or is it a) card in
there. The question is whether they did it as a module or not.
It would be nice if the contributed that in any case.

Marcus

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